Combined floor brush and mop



June 15 1926. 1,589,253

' A. J. SMIECHEWICZ COMBINED FLOOR BRUSH AND MOP Fil y 7, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Qwuvntoz June 15, 1926. 1,589,253

A. J. SMIECHEWICZ COMBINED FLOOR BRUSH AND MOP Fil y '7, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 FIG. 5. J7 203011 4 J5 56/ O it (/2, r1 Sm'ahavicz Patented June 15, 1926..

ADAlVI J". SMIECI-IEW'ICZ, 0F CLEVELAND, OHIO.

GOMBINE'D FLOOR BRUSH AND MOP.

Application filed May 7, 192-5.

This invention relates to improvements in a combined floor brush and mop.

The primary object of the invention is to provide acombination "floor brush and mop of novel construction embodying, among other features, means to permit rapid changing from a brush to a mop, or vice versa, without .d-issembl'ing the device in any way.

A. further object of the invention is to provide adjustable means for removing the surplus moisture from the mop fabric without necessitating the manipulation of the latter with the hands of the operator of the device. fl

Other .objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Figure '1 is a side elevational view, partly broken away, of the combined brush and mop embodying this invention,

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the structure shown in Fig. 1,

.Figure 3 is a side elevational view, partly broken away, of a slightly modified form of combined floor brush and mop,

Figure 4. is a fragmentary longitudinal sectional view of the structure shown in Figs. 1 and 2,

Figure 5 is a longitudinal sectional view taken upon line V V of Fig. 1,

Figure 6 is a fragmentary perspective view of one side bar of the structure,

Figure 7 is a detail perspective view of an adjustable wringer roll engaging lug,

Figure 8 is a detail perspective view of a brush clamping jaw,

Figure 9 is a fragmentary perspective view of a cross brace member having means for supporting an adjustment screw,

Figure 10 is a similar view to Fig. 9 and shows a second cross brace member, and

Figure 11 is a fragmentary plan view of a spool shown assembled in the device in Fig. 2.-

In the drawings, wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred embodiment of this invention, the numeral 5, in Figs. 1 and 2, designates a handle portion having suitably fastened thereto the parallel lugs 6 and 7 of the side bars 8 and 9 respectively, the side bars being arranged in par Serial No. 28,658.

allelism and spaced a greater distance than the lugs 6 and 7 and connected thereto by the arms 10 and 11 respectively. These side bars 8 and 9 are reversely curved at 12 and 13 and are formed with the forwardly pro jecting frame members l l and 15. These frame members are of identical construction and will be best understood by carefully eX- amining the frame member 15 shown in Figs. .4 to 6 inclusive.

It will be seen that this same member 15 is curved downwardly at 16 to provide the perpendicularly extending lug 17, having an aperture 18, and which has formed integrally therewith the rigid clamping jaw 19 including the perpendicular end lug 19 The clamping jaws 19 of the frame members 14 and 15 are intended to have adjustably connected thereto the movable clamping jaws 20 which are formed with the apertured lugs 21 and the end lugs 20 The said jaws 19 and 20 are employed for clamping the brush 22. therebetween which is held against removal by the drawing together of the said aws by means of the bolts 23.

In Figs. 9 and 10 there are shown two di fierent types of cross bar iembers which are connected to the frame members 14 and 15 for maintaining the same in proper spaced relation. The cross bar member 24-, in Fig. 9, includes the back portion 25 hav ing the depending ends 26. These ends 26 are properly apertured for receiving bolts or rivets by means of which they are fastened to the inner ends of the frame members 14 and 15 in positions to straddle the longitudinally extending slots 27 which enter the frame members from their rear ends. These. depending ends 26 are formed with integral ears 28 which are apertured and internally screw threaded at 29.

The type of cross bar inember 30, shown in Fig. '10, is provided at its ends with the depending portions 31 which are properly apertured for receiving bolts or rivets by means of which these depending ends may be fastened to the outer end portions of the frame members M and 15.

The frame members 14 and 15 are apertured slightly rearwardly of the front cross bar member for receiving the shaft 32 which supports a mop wringer roll 33. This shaft is provided with a gear 34 at one end which meshes with gear 35 carried by a shaft 36 which is ad-justably journa-led in the slots 27 formed in the rear ends of the frame members. This shaft 36 is also provided with a mop wringer roll 37 This shaft 36 is adjustably held in position by means of the lugs 38, one of which is shown in detail in Fig. 7. These lugs include a pusher member 39 arcuately formed at its outer end 40 for corresponding with the curvature of the shaft 36, an apertured ear 41, and a small bar 42. These lugs-are arranged with the pusher member 39 received within the slot27 andwith the ear. 41 and bar 42 arranged on opposite sides of the frame member. The apertures in the cars 41 are intended to have journaled therein the reduced ends 43 of the feed screws 44which are received within the threaded apertures 29 of the ears 28 carried by the cross bar member 24, the feed screws 44 having winged heads 45 by means of which they may be rotated to adjustably move the lugs 38 in respect to the frame members. It will be seen that by varying the positions of the lugs 38, the shaftv 36 with its mop wringer roll 37 may be adjusted in respect to the shaft 32 and its mop wringer roll 33. It is understood, however, that this shaft 36 should only be adjusted to the limits permitted by the meshing gears 34 and 35.

The upper ends of the side bars 8 and 9 have journaled therein a shaft 46 which has mounted thereon the spool 47 having the end grooves 48. This shaft 46 is intended to be operated by the crank handle 49 and is provided at its opposite end with a sprocket wheel 50 upon which rides the sprocket chain 51 which extends along theside bar 8 and rides upon the sprocket wheel 52 fastened to the shaft 36, as best illustrated in Fig. 2. These grooves 48 havesuitably fastened thereto and adapted to be wound thereupon the cords 53 which have fastened to their free ends the strip or block 54 to which is clamped one end of the mop fabric 55 by the top guide bar 56, a lower guide bar 57 also being fastened to the block 54. The block 54 is intended to be formed of a suitable length to be received between the side bars 8 and 9 while the guide bars 56 and 57 are of greater length than the block 54 and have their opposite ends overlying and underlying the side bars 8 and 9 for guiding the movement of the block 54. This mop fabric 55 is illustrated in Fig. l as being arranged between the mop wringer rolls 33 and 37. a

In Fig. 3 there is shown a slightly modified formof combined floor brush and mop, the modification consisting of the adjustability of the outer mop wringer roll instead of the inner roll. In this form, the frame members 56 are longitudinally slotted at their outer ends, as at 57 and have the outer shaft 58 adjustably journaled therein.

The lugs 59 are actuated by the feed screws 7 i 44 carried by the cross bar member 24 in the same manner as illustrated in connection with the structure shown in the remaining figures. The remaining features of construction of this modified form of device are identical with the form'shown and described above.

The operation of this device may be described as follows: I

In Fig. 1 the combined floor brush and mop is illustrated as properly arranged to function as a mop. The mop fabric 55 is depending for a major portion of its length from the wringer rolls 32 and 37 and is ositioned beneath the floor brush 22." The device may be operated in any desired man ner for causing the fabric 55 to functionin the usual manner. Tooperate the device to remove surplus moisture from the mop 'fabric 55, the. crank handle 49'should berotated for causing the cords 53 to be'wound upon the spool 47. Thisrotation of the spool 47,

and of course the shaft 46, will cause the sprocket chain 51to travel in aproper direction for rotating the'adjustable shaft 36. This rotation of the shaft 36, due toits gear connection with the shaft 32, will causethe fabric 55 to be drawn or fed upwardly between the mop wringer rolls 33 and 37 This upward feeding of the fabric 55 is. taken care of by the upward movement of the block 54-along the side bars 8' and9,.due to the winding in of the cords 53.

To convert this device from: a mop to a floor brush, the mop fabric 53 is actuated in the same manneras the manner just described in connection with the removing of surplus moisture from the fabric; This mop fabric 55 should be pulled upwardly or fed through the wringer rolls 33' and 37 until the outer end of the fabric is positioned above the floor line. The floor brush 2? will then be exposed or unaffected by the fabric 55 and may be used as desired.

It is to be understood that the forms of this invention herewith shown and described are to be taken as preferred examples of the same, and that various changes in the shape, size, and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claims.

Having thus described the invention, I claim I 1. In a device of the type described, a handle, frame members carried by the handle, cross-connecting means between the frame members, a pair of wringer rolls journaled in said frame members, said frame members having oppositely alined slots in which one of the rolls is'journaled, a. block slidably supported in each slot for engaging the end of theroll j ournaled in the slot, an adjusting screw for the, block threaded through one of the cross-connecting means andswlveled to the block, a mop strlp extendlng between rolls and means for feeding the mop strip in opposite directions between said rolls.

2. In a device of the type described, a handle, frame members carried by the ham dle, cross-connecting means between the frame members, a pair of wringer rolls j ournaled in said frame members, said frame members having oppositely alined slots in which one of the rolls is journaled, a block slidably supported in each slot for engaging the end of the roll jonrnaled in the slot, cooperating ears carried by the block and adjacent frame connecting means and a screw threaded through the ear on the connecting means and swiveled to the other ear, a mop strip extending between said rolls, and

means for feeding the mop strip in opposite 20 directions between said rolls.

In testnnony whereof I affix my signature.

ADAM J. SMIECHEVVIGZ. 

